maids-of-all-work
maids-of-all-work is the plural of maid-of-all-work.
Meaning of maid-of-all-work
Noun
maid-of-all-work (plural maids-of-all-work)
- A female servant employed to do general housework.
- Now this honest little fellow being a bachelor, keeps but one servant, which he calls a maid of all work. When he gets drunk, which doth not happen above seven times a week, he is never so happy as when he is expatiating on the virtues of this virgin of his, especially her sobriety.1770, Thomas Bridges, chapter 7, in The Adventures of a Bank-Note, volume 3, London: T. Davies, published 1771, page 54
- Any person who does a wide range of jobs in a supportive role; a thing that serves a wide range of purposes.
- These colossal changes necessitate an attempt to adapt the constitution of 1789 to an entirely different kind of civilization from the one for which it was planned. The only significant change made to meet this new civilization is the great American maid-of-all-work, the Inter-State Commerce...1916, Charles Zueblin, “Rejuvenating the Constitution”, in Yale Law Journal, volume 25, page 218
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